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Our first two does kidded for the season, We are off to a good start with 23 more does to go and only loosing one pregnancy so far out of the group to an abortion at 3 months into gestation. Here are the first two sets of twins. first picture is a doe and a buck born in the middle of the...

We have breeding pairs and trios of Silver Fox Rabbits available. Silver Fox Rabbits are a rare heritage breed of meat rabbits. If you are looking to get into meat rabbits, they are a very calm breed with good meat to bone ratio with a really unique fur type. We originally purchased this...

Hello: We spent a year on a waiting list and then of course 5 months for them to grow to maturity to breed and we are weaning and selling our first Pedigreed Silver Fox kits. Felt like a long wait, especially considering they are rabbits and every one knows rabbits breed... Well, like rabbits...

This website provides step by step instructions on tube feeding it does a wonderful job. http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1998/eb1998.pdf Feel free to add your own experiences, or specific information for breeds and amounts to tube feed. We have tube fed several kids from just...

This is great for learning how to tube feed. It is very well written. Save to your computer or print a copy for the future. http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1998/eb1998.pdf We have saved several kids by tube feeding. We have tube fed for up to 4 days on a new born kid before...

Hello: The consignment sale is for registered percentage or fullblood Boer goats. They are stlll looking for consigners of healthy registered does. There is a facebook page and a website that you can go to to contact someone if you are interested in consigning. Virginia is for Boer Goat...

Wanted to make sure you all new this. IBGA, International Boer Goat association is closing. Information on what to do if you have IBGA registered goats is on their website. If they are already dual enrolled you don't need to do anything, but they will no longer be dual enrolled. Also, If they...

How warm do I need to make it for them? We live in valley in VA, Right now averages are 30 at night 50 to 60 during the day, tonight is going to be 21. We purchased a trio of 10 week meat rabbits. We built an all wire hutch system with wooden framing and a tin roof. 4 hole hutch, 8 feet...

I wanted to orgainze some of our hay and grain feeders that we use into one thread. here is the creep feed area: a grain feeder design that works well: grain feeder in the back and a mineral feeder that we really like grain feeder more of the creep feeder our inside hay/grain...

I thought we should start a thread about the weather getting ready to hit the East coast. We are in the Valley in VA, and there is not enough information yet, but they are saying it could be terrible with inches and inches of rain, maybe even ice and snow, or hardly nothing at all. We are...

:rant Well, we finally put one of our bucks in with some young February does. Goldman to be exact. He was so poorly behaved last breeding season we were vary concerned about this plan. To our surprise he was a perfect gentlemen and has stopped his constant running and jumping on his field...

Well, I had a great time last year posting all my does and sharing with everyone our kidding season in 2012. I can't help but start my 2013 kidding thread. The first 12 hopefully are due the first week of January. followed by 5 more at the end of January and then hopefully 6 more the end of...

Here is opening up a can of worms. A place for us to discuss, argue a little, and share why we feed grain and why we don't. NO one is right or wrong in this discussion. Feel free to voice your personal opinions about grains/pelleted feeds, ect.... the differences between grains and pelleted...

Call it scouring, runny poop, or the squirts anyway you wish, but what are you going to do about it? What are your next steps to caring for your sick goat. Or is he sick at all? The three main causes of scours, bacterial, parasitic and dietary are not always unrelated to each other and one...

Here are a few pictures of some of the goats that we took to the fair. Overall we did pretty well, placing more in the top half than the bottom half with a couple of 3rd places. We had a great time and the goats stayed fairly healthy, A couple of them did come home with a small cough. One of...

Wanted to share our recent experience and I am happy to report successful experience saving a very very anemic goat. Background information: 5 year old doe that is nursing 5 week old twin bucklings, on pasture, but also given supplement goat grain(1 1/2 lbs) and minerals free choice. Kids...

We don't keep wethers long term, so I have no experience with this. Would it work if you just had two goats on1 1/2 acres and purchased a wether and a doe about the same age and raised them long-term together? Would the wether annoy the doe. When the doe comes into heat would it cause the...

I had someone call wanting to get goats from us to eventually train to pull a cart. I know nothing about this, and they know nothing about goats. Would a doe make a good cart goat? Or does it have to be a wether? What else do I need to know?

Hello: I thought I would post for educational purposes. We have a 4 month old doeling in very good health, about 65 lbs, no history of any scours(runny poop). As of yesterday morning, we found her standing in the corner, horrible scours, head hanging, tail down, sunken in. She was eating and...

thought some of you would like to find out more about the new CL vaccine made for goats. http://tennesseemeatgoats.com/MeatGoatMania/May2012/index.html